The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The outrages of the powerful, the insolence of the rich, scorn of the proud, and malice of the uncharitable, all beating against… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
Parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don't mind poverty and misery and cruelty… — Susan Ertz Copy Share Image
“When I say time must be converted, what I'm saying is that seconds must be converted, minutes must be converted, hours must… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Though virtue give a ragged livery, she gives a golden cognizance; if her service make thee poor, blush not. Thy poverty may… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I think it goes back to whether or not race and class - that is, race and poverty - is not becoming… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“That trip to India, the poverty. No God I can imagine would let that happen. Then I came home and started noticing… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
It all begins, I maintain, with that powerful and underutilized thing called love. God's love for the individual is displayed by those… — Wess Stafford Copy Share Image
I think so much of my life had me growing up under extreme poverty and really challenging conditions, with having the police… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
Science comforting man's animal poverty and leisuring his toil, hath humanized manners and social temper, and now above her globe-spredd net of… — Robert Bridges Copy Share Image
Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and… — Timothy Egan Copy Share Image
“The truth was that nature had endowed them with a larger share of brains than was common in their circle, and had… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
“Fundamentally, poverty is a denial of choices and opportunities, a violation of human dignity. It means lack of basic capacity to participate… — Dean Karlan Copy Share Image
Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with -… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
“People who have become great like Benjamin Franklin only became great because they learned how to invest time into improving whatever it… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on… — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will… — Martin H. Manser Copy Share Image
“Even though God has given the gift of time to all men equally, it is what each man does with this equal… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Remember that disadvantage is less about income than environment. The best metrics of child poverty aren't monetary, but rather how often a… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
“Not every poor or unemployed person who has one wears a political party’s t-shirt to reveal their political affiliation; some use it… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“You must know what to do with your time if you must become great in this life. You must know what to… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd taken a vow of poverty so… — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
Do not complain then of your poverty, my daughter, - we only complain of that which is unwelcome, and if poverty is… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Psychologically, it's difficult to ever shrug off the effects of extreme hardship or poverty, family bereavement, chronic ill health or the memory… — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
“All I am saying is that you should begin to see greatness as something you cannot do without. Begin to see greatness… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I think connected to poverty is the trauma of poverty. It's not just a material thing; it's a psychological thing that we… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
“There are places where you can live only when you are healthy, in those places when you fall ill it's the end… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
“You win when you are able to convert that time into an investment, into seeds or fruits or products of cultivating your… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the… — Richard Jeni Copy Share Image
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What are these so-called austerity measures? What do they really bring? Oh, they bring a lot more poverty. Oh, they bring a… — Gerald Celente Copy Share Image
Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
